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I welcome Python3 just fine. Character data no longer being automatically ASCII might be a bit annoying, but it's fine if that's what it takes to support a more global developer base.

I just wish they would stop iterating on the minor version so quickly. Why are we on python 3.11 (for workgroups, just kidding)? Is there that much of a difference compared to 3.7? 3.7 even has dicts with stable key insertion order and type hinting, so it seems pretty loaded if you ask me.

[One key possibility] ... Lower metabolic rate: One of the biggest determinants of body temperature is your metabolic rate. Like a car engine that’s idling, your body expends energy just keeping things going, and that generates heat. A lower metabolic rate in modern times could be due to higher body mass (some studies link this with lower metabolic rate), or better medical treatments, preventive measures, and overall health.

I know it's not exactly "thinking with statistics", but it strikes me as too coincidental that the obesity epidemic has only exploded in recent decades too.

Duo Mobile on iOS lets you save and restore your TOTP tokens across iPhone backups with a symmetric passphrase. It provides some peace of mind in the event you would lose your phone.

I have a similar tale to tell. Ever since I've taken activated charcoal regularly, I have felt considerable improvement in my digestion and overall well-being. I feel happier, even. The charcoal is "sourced from non-GMO coconuts" which I don't necessarily believe but I take it as a sign that it's a higher quality product instead of repackaged industrial waste (like a lot of the market probably is).

I take 1000mg of activated charcoal per day and feel better. It is paradoxical, because all charcoal does is absorb. It makes me think that everything we put into our bodies nowadays is poison. And if all charcoal does is absorb, maybe most foods are a net negative. My interest in fasting has piqued as a result.

I think we are entering an era of rampant industrialization wherein the products (food, soaps, cookware coatings, packaging materials, etc.) are not necessarily the best products on the market, but simply cost effective enough to put on the shelves--meaning if waste can get on the shelf through clever marketing and engineering then it will.

Note that if you publish to GitHub publicly, it will feed into Copilot without any way of opting out.

Yes, absolutely. I like his candor, and honestly I get fairly demoralized when I have to work alongside underperforming peers. Nobody likes to talk about the form of workplace toxicity that manifests in the form of lazy coworkers who ride off your successes, pigeonholing you into being the team workhorse.

If Elon is getting rid of those people, more power to him.

There's nothing I do that I think anyone would be especially interested in spying on, other than to try and sell me things.

Do Uyghurs have something to hide and are worth spying on? How many times are we going to hear this argument? It comes only from a position of privilege. You're only uninteresting to be spied on as long as it's allowed by the security apparatus you depend upon. There's a reason we have sayings like "power corrupts"; dismissing the potential for abuse of a cloud-based unencrypted surveillance system is narrow-mindedness at best and subversion at worst.

Note: the above hardly represents me politically, it is just a counterargument against the perennially repeated "I have nothing to hide."

I will never pay for YouTube until I'm guaranteed a way to opt out of the recommendation algorithm. It's not so much a recommendation algorithm as much as it is an adversarial search on my behavior to see what cheap content I'll actually engage. Every so often I'll notice a video from a clickbait-ey channel in my sidebar about a topic I care little for, like expensive luxury items or epic pop star moments.

So, I can't trust YouTube to be objective in its recommendations. It's very likely attempting to train me to seek deeper pools within their content graph so that I use YouTube more. Which is fine if it were a free model ("freemium", really), as I would implicitly agree to be mined in exchange for a hosted service with plenty of content. That I would PAY for that, however, is not something I would feel happy about. It would feel like paying for the privilege of receiving a slap in the face.

This is a really clever and thought-provoking idea, and I believe that is the spirit in which it is intended (rather than as an "actual" game).

It seems more like an elaborate joke to me. I can see people being annoyed after being teased with the notion of a new game, only for it to be a gag.

One interpretation I've been entertaining: In the modern world, we have recently realized that speech is more complicated than people exchanging ideas in a civil manner, and that speech has the power to influence consensus reality through second order and higher effects. (Think: phenomena such as "self-radicalization"). This leads to decisions to simply restrict speech rather than deal with the complexity.

I am not entirely convinced that restricting speech is the right move. I think if anything it creates division. Either way, we'll most likely see how it works out in the next few years.

Neuromancer

Snow Crash

Blindsight

(Just some fun fiction to bolster one's passion for their chosen profession. Obviously TAOCP, SICP, K&R, and other books in their ranks are better answers.)

Why not just redirect bash -i to /dev/tcp/$HOST/$PORT on your local net if you're red teaming? Rather than using someone else's server. Good idea as a persistent backdoor though.

Responsible Innovation Team

Whenever I come across a dystopian sounding name like that, I immediately distrust them.

The same could happen with a hardware token like Yubikey, if it were to suffer from an irrecoverable software or hardware error. It's still useful, because spoofed authentication prompts will no longer get a chance at plaintext access to your password.

I understand what the halting problem implies, what complexity is, what Turing machine means and why they are an abstraction for algorithms, and the basic common memes of programming such as using a stack and a heap, IEEE 754 floating point numbers, 2s complement binary numbering, and so on and so forth.

Yet I don't know a lick of Go. If I were to open up a Hello World tutorial for Go during the interview, would I honestly still have a shot?

I can see this degenerating into some sort of efficiency metric that will be engineered around. For instance, it wouldn't be too hard to take the Google logo and make it a proper "light" with some LEDs. Or simply write out the name in white LEDs.

Dear author, if you're the one sharing the article: you misspelled "retpoline" in your very first usage of the word.

If you're not being sarcastic and this piece is a native ad, why would Prozac be targeting youths? Are the youths depressed?

I've noticed hcaptcha being used more widely.

It's not all due to mass production. Modern industrial design has made it so that accidents are expensive.

If you involve yourself and in a minor automobile collision and damage one of your front headlights on your Lexus with adaptive lighting, your total repair cost for the headlight itself will exceed $1000. A new headlight will require removal the front bumper and calibration of the adaptive sensors, both of which add labor costs. It's not just headlights; if you have lane-keeping technology in your vehicle and this is achieved via a forward facing camera, then a windshield replacement exceeds $1000 as well. If you smash your rear bumper into a mailbox and need to replace the whole bumper, you need your parking sensors re-calibrated. And this is with a maintainable car make like Lexus. For the more ostentatious luxury makes, the costs will be significantly more.

You might think, I'll buy a truck then. But trucks also have windshield-integrated forward-facing cameras, backup/parking sensors, and adaptive headlights. You wouldn't save much versus the Lexus.

That one is for a MacBook Pro. GP probably wants one for an Air[0] instead.

[0] https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Mac/MacBook-Air-13-Inch-A2337-L...

The display assembly itself is $450, so 680 EUR sounds about right to have it professionally repaired.

Also, it makes sense that it would cost that much. Most of the product is that luxury display, with an M1 hanging off it. You could probably open up the case, rip out the logic board, and pay less in repairs.

AppleCare+ is pretty fairly priced and generous with their services, and would have made your display repair substantially cheaper, most likely free unless you tell them straight up that you dropped your MacBook or punched the screen.

Call me old-fashioned, but I use Cmd-D to save bookmarks, and either the search bar or the bookmark library to organize/look through them. When I decide I want to blow away my operating system, I export my bookmarks and import them at the new incarnation.

Roughly MAU minus 5.4M

Besides having one thing fewer to carry on your person, I don't see the point. Aren't passports already cryptographic devices, containing your information for external lookup and verification? Why move that to the phone? If anything that decreases security, and it's not like your need your passport available commonly enough like a bus pass to warrant moving to the phone. Passports with a chip offer fantastic security in a discrete package, and if the future is to move this to the phone then I will be a bit disappointed.

The Greek delta being used as a "o" irks me a bit too, because to me it looks very much like a consonant, but I make a one-off exception for this project.

It's a shibboleth for knowing who the author is, you could say.

A Python script kept alive by Supervisor

I laughed a little. Sometimes the job needs to be done quickly and in a familiar way, I suppose.

Not sure if this is a frame of reference effect, or maybe just a local minimum, but alternative/rock music from the early 00s was extremely depressing compared to the modern stuff (which seems to have settled into an abstract/esoteric niche). I have sometimes wondered why it seemed like depression was "cool" in the late 90s/early 00s. For instance, if you look up the lyrics for Chevelle - Send The Pain Below, you'd quickly realize such a song would set off a bunch of red flags in 2022, yet this was a song played daily on the radio.

Posts like these, for me, highlight the class divide. PG thinks "few people" grasp how much effort dang expends, when in reality, a whole class of people working in customer service roles expend roughly the same amount of effort. Sure, dang might be uniquely efficient, but the expenditure of effort is on the same order.

I once witnessed a Delta employee in ATL process a queue of customers, all with issues regarding their seat number. Without knowing too much about the process, it seemed to me that she took everyone's story and fixed the seating arrangement so that everyone would be seated together by group. I was impressed, but she doesn't get any applause for solving (well, approximating) an NP-complete problem, and I doubt she focused on math during her years in education, and certainly she won't think to write a blog focused on "Solving the N-passengers, K-groups problem 30 minutes before boarding time." Most importantly, she could have easily said "not my problem," but didn't.

That is anecdata but it does not stand alone. I regularly witness about 10% of customer service personnel giving it their all to represent their company and keep customers happy. They are the "dangs" of those organizations, and they keep everything running smoothly. So it would seem "few people" is not accurate. Instead it's an huge lower-middle (under)class cohort keeping capitalist dreams alive.